Thanks Jim

[quote user="jbanks"]

Perhaps your rule simply doesn't do what you think it should.

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 You are right. I was testing the text "opt-out", while the rule is testing for the text " opt-out".

All working!

Regards

Richard

The new mailstore that will be introduced in Mercury version 5 is planned to allow moving messages directly to IMAP folders. It's not supported in the current version, so until Mercury 5 I'm afraid it will have to be done client-side.

/Rolf 

Try to track how these messages end up in the queue. Are they from a local sender, or have spammers found a way to relay through your server? Make sure strict relaying control is switched on, and that there aren't any AUTH passwords that have been compromised.

/Rolf 

[quote user="silence"]

An alternative I have been using for a while. Stable and updated frequently:

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Thanks for the link.  I've had it up and running for 14 days without any issues.  Still no word from Nico. 

It's not likely that the daemon starts behaving differently after some time, so if some messages with less than 25 recipients are filtered there is probably some other factor that is causing it. If you can figure out what that is I can try to fix it.

Check all headers in the messages to see if there is any clue why delivery failure notifications loop. It might be a good idea to examine the Domains section in mercury.ini as well in case there is some problem there.

/Rolf 

If neither Mercury nor Outlook can connect to mail.site4test.x10.bz it's a networking problem rather than a Mercury problem. Make sure that login details for the server are entered correctly in MercuryC configuration and that port 25 isn't blocked by some firewall. To get more information you can try temporarily switching on session logging in MercuryC.

/Rolf 

Hello Rolf:

 the Problem is not soleved. Stll the same more the relay option corses a lot 550 errors for legal user send out and filter generated copies to secondary external email accounts.

BUT--- For the Moment it is too much trouble on other problems to work on this one.

Thats not what i want but i use TB as a workaround an Filter by "feet".

I will send a new answere when their is time to work on.

Thx

Gregor

Are you talking about SMTP level filtering? As rejections based on reverse DNS lookups of SMTP HELO greetings are likely to violate RFC 2821 there is no built-in function for this in MercuryS. It would be possible to write an event daemon to do PTR lookups though, but I'm not aware that any such daemon exists.

/Rolf 

Thomas

Thank you for your response.  If you are referring to in config on mercury screen it is set to ~n.

Is there something I missed was the a config file I have to generate and copy?

I have a number of domain accounts on GMail that I use MercuryD to poll. For the past week or so GMail has been having intermittent connectivity issues. This is what shows up when there's a problem.

02:39:07.781: --- Sat Sep 03 02:39:07 2011 ---
02:39:07.781: Connect to 'pop.gmail.com', timeout 30.
02:39:08.890: 22: Error -41 activating SSL session (locus 6014, type 4, code 10054, 'WSAECONNRESET: Connection was reset by the remote host execu')
02:39:08.890: --- Connection closed normally at Sat Sep 03 02:39:08 2011. ---

The problem is that this fouls up the poll that happens two SSL connections later.  See the attached screenshot to see what the MercD screen looks like.  The above log snippet is in the middle with the odd-looking D at the beginning.  The transaction for the next connection ran correctly according to the log, though the status screen is fouled up.  Mercury completely crashed on the last one.  This is a repeatable problem.  Any ideas?

[quote user="Vincent Fatica"]

What exactly does this, from the system messages window, mean?

 POLICY: Exception 2, job 'MG000003' deleted

I wrote the policy EXE and it always returns 0.  Does "Exception 2" have some specific meaning?

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P.S., The policy EXE uses the native DWORD (WINAPI *) (VOID) entry point signature.  I often do that when C libraries aren't needed and many such apps worked flawlessly for years under XP.  After switching to Win7, some of them (haven't figured out rhyme or reason) don't work flawlessly ... they reach a "return" (from the entry point), the main thread ends (according to the debugger, and I'm not creating other threads), but the app doesn't terminate.  But I don't think that's happening in this case for several reasons ... (1) the policy EXE tests OK, (2) there aren't zombie instances of it running, (3) the "POLICY: Exception" message occurs 1-2 seconds after the mail arrives, and (4) the docs say that when a policy hangs, Mercury treats the message as OK.

 - Vince

You may need to experiment a bit to get it right. STYLE tags will take precedence over standard HTML tags in most HTML renderers. There are some examples for how to set the font size with CSS here: 

/Rolf 

Thank you Rolf;

 (I'm so used to Turnpike that I didn't realise that it must have a built in server to distribute mail as it does. Obviously rather different from other mail clients.)

I've just tried to install Mercury by just going for it. It seems to be a case to 'Read The - Manual'

I will definitely study the information you pointed me to. I hope the learning curve is not too steep but if it does what I want it will be worth it.Thanks again,

Alfred

Somerset U.K. 

This all makes sense now as I used to restart Mercury every day. Recently, I took to restarting it ony after a configuration change or server restart. I'll make a note to clear the logs folder when this happens. FWIW Windows 2008 does not have problems with a large number of files created by our server. I've had over 10,000 in the folder and have been able to view, move them without issue. Mind you, your definition of 'many files' may be higher than mine :)

Thanks again for the help.

Thanks Thomas!  Appreciate the quick responses!

So, in a nutshell, what I've been doing is all I can do - having a separately-maintained username/password list for SMTP authentication in a textfile. 

...but my users who are using Pegasus don't need to type in this SMTP password because Pegasus will automatically authenticate using another means?

[quote user="EduaRT"]In MercuryS SMTP Server --> Connection Control, I checked "Only Authenticated SMTP connections may relay mail" but this obviously only applies for non-local users. How can I force local users to SMTP authenticate first?[/quote]

The operative part of that option is RELAY, and it does force local users to authenticate prior to RELAYING mail TO non-local addresses.

You cannot require authentication for mail addressed TO local users, or else how would foreign servers deliver incoming mail?

You could probably set it up like this if you want, but you would need another instance of Mercury with a different local-domain to be the SMTP server, and deny access from the local network to the SMTP server on the "local" Mercury.

You can run two instances on the same machine, from different directories, but you can't have conflicting services running on the same ports.

I have a recollection that this can also happen if the account Mercury is running under doesn't have access, as a result of folder permissions, to all the folders Mercury needs.

 Chris

Thanks, Thomas - you nailed it.

The user's account was still listed in synonyms.mer. I removed the entry, restarted Mercury, sent a test message and Mercury replied with a 550 error.

Thanks again.

This is a thread with an example of using a batch file in a policy:

/Rolf 

Just a side comment on this.  My ISP doesn't provide static IP addresses for consumer accounts.  One needs a more expensive business account with the ISP to have this functionality.  However, this has never caused me a problem.  I am using an application that tracks the dynamic IP address (which rarely changes anyway) and causes DNS to be updated accordingly.  There are various applications that can provide this IP tracking function (I use DirectUpdate).

Also, because of the dynamic IP address limitation, my ISP doesn't offer the ability to choose DNS records.  However, as  I have my own domain, my Domain Name Registrar does allow me to edit DNS records, e.g. for type MX.  Other companies offer "advanced DNS services" (and some are free) even if your Domain Name Registrar does not.

Gordon